Wolves v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[LukeJames]

The stupid decision not to get another striker is coming home to roost. But, ffs our players are so injury prone. It'll be a struggle to stay in this League but I think we'll scrape 16th or 17th place, just.

As shite as we were today ,we'll stay up easily.

[ChicagoLion]

Wesley's best contribution was beating his man at the near post to get in a position to score an equaliser.

His worst contribution was missing the sodding ball having done so 🙁

His shot that he skied is right up there, god he was useless.

[Jon Crofts]

The stupid decision not to get another striker is coming home to roost. But, ffs our players are so injury prone. It'll be a struggle to stay in this League but I think we'll scrape 16th or 17th place, just.

As shite as we were today ,we'll stay up easily.

I admire your optimism, you do know it's Villa right?

[Five Villa Tattoos]

We’re in the shit now and we need at least two strikers in January.
We don’t have a single premier league quality one at the club. Time to admit that I think.
In any other job our fitness, conditioning etc team , or whatever their name is, would have been binned.
Exactly how many calf, hamstring injuries have happened at Bodymoor and during games? Pretty sure we lead the way in this.
After the Toon fixture our next four look ominous.
Time to prove everyone wrong, yet again, Villa.

[Ads]

First half we were terrible. The substitutions didnt help and the full backs tucking in was an odd choice.

2nd half it was more competitive and pressure only really began to be exerted as the Wolves got tired and dropped deeper. Their goal against the run of play, but overall we can't complain.

Nkamba was dire today, the amount of possession he recycled was bizarre.

No Grealish makes a difference, massive. McGinn was anonymous without him.

Think Wesley needs somebody up top with him.

Another trip here and another utterly dreadful performance.

[West Derby Villan]

Our front three are woeful. An embarrassment at this level. They all need replacing wholesale in January.

Toothless

[saunders_heroes]

Our front three are woeful. An embarrassment at this level. They all need replacing wholesale in January.

Agreed. Absolutely nothing up front. Decent second half but the damage was done.
A striker and 2 wingers in January please.

[Ads]

Trezuguet and El Ghazi were better second half.

I'd be considered 352. Konsa is very assured and Freddie works his absolute bollocks off.

Grealish in behind Davis/Kodjia and Wesley gives us that 343 in attack.

[GarTomas]

First half we were terrible. The substitutions didnt help and the full backs tucking in was an odd choice.

2nd half it was more competitive and pressure only really began to be exerted as the Wolves got tired and dropped deeper. Their goal against the run of play, but overall we can't complain.

Nkamba was dire today, the amount of possession he recycled was bizarre.

No Grealish makes a difference, massive. McGinn was anonymous without him.

Think Wesley needs somebody up top with him.

Another trip here and another utterly dreadful performance.

Spot on.

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Quite a bit of aggro after the game. The Police here haven't got it nailed down like they have at the Sty and the Tesco Dome.

[SoccerHQ]

First half we were terrible. The substitutions didnt help and the full backs tucking in was an odd choice.

2nd half it was more competitive and pressure only really began to be exerted as the Wolves got tired and dropped deeper. Their goal against the run of play, but overall we can't complain.

Nkamba was dire today, the amount of possession he recycled was bizarre.

No Grealish makes a difference, massive. McGinn was anonymous without him.

Think Wesley needs somebody up top with him.

Another trip here and another utterly dreadful performance.

Said it in the match thread but our recent records at Molinuex and Hawthorns are terrible.

Go back a decade and those games were always comfortable 3 points or at worst a point.

[Loxton01]

Really really poor today. Local derby looked like a practice match at times with some of our players. We lacked passion and desire. First half we were lucky to get in only one nil but the goal was so so avoidable.

Second half was very telling for me wolves visibly tired and we had a chance to go for the point even if we didn’t deserve it but we didn’t have enough quality. Awful challenge from Luiz to not take out traore for their second.

We need reinforcements in January big time upfront. If we struggle next few games will smith make it to January as these owners won’t accept it

Nyland -6 - did nothing wrong
Guilbert -6- made mistakes but is a fighter
Targett -4- woeful distribution looked like he gave up
Taylor -5- battled but he simply isn’t good enough
Mings -7- did everything he could
Konza- 6 - did ok nothing more
McGinn-6 - not a great game but tried his best
Luiz-4- becoming a luxury player for me don’t see how he keeps his place
Marvellous-6- can see why he was taken off to stop him getting sent off
Wesley- 2- woeful gutless absolute sham of a player. Has he won an attacking header at any point this season? Pathetic
Trez-4- mistakes poor decision making
El ghazi- 4 awful first half better second half but not much better

Smith has got to change adapt and learn fast the best managers do that and I’m afraid his naivety is showing

[Legion]

Highlights

[GemSaloon]

Jesus, some of these comments. Wolves are a much better team than us, they'll probably be pushing for the Euro places again this season and I wouldn't be surprised if they get into the later stages of the Europa.

Remember where we were this time last year? We're making progress but most of our players have little to no top level experience, Wolves have genuine top quality like Moutinho, Neves, Jiminez, Patricio players who would walk into most teams in the league. Playing them at their place when they're in good form and without so many of our first choice players was always going to be tough. Rotten luck with the injuries made things worse.

Newcastle at home after the international break is the real test of where we're at currently.

[Comrade Blitz]

The confidence going forward by Wolves was amazing. They never seem intimidated.